chakster
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| Cartridge Recommendation for Grado Lab Series Wooden Tonearm Actually I mixed up your Grado Wooden tonearm with later Grado Signature tonearm. The wooden might be too heavy for high compliance cartridge, you have to check effective mass of that tonearm. Wooden tonearm was designed in 1964, you can find in G... | |
| I cannot say enough about the KAB Concorde STY40 combo All I use is ortofon concord cartridges! Easy on, easy off, I use two diff ones.Ortofon - arkiv ortofon - nightclub II The OP is talking about different stylus profile, not the stock profile. Concorde STOCK models are awful sounding low complianc... | |
| I cannot say enough about the KAB Concorde STY40 combo What is wrong with the Technics method for a Technics Turntable? Nothing wrong, but you can’t use Concorde on any other tonearm/turntable because it was made for Technics 52mm overhang only (and you can’t change it). You can use only one tonearm ... | |
| Stylus shape? The shape of the stylus related not only to the better sound, but also to less record wear and longer life-span of the stylus itself. 1) Conventional stylus is Spherical/Conical and Elliptical.2) Advanced styli are: Hyper Elliptical, Shibata, Line... | |
| What tonearm is recommended for the denon 103r The Schick "12 is another inexpensive option for Denon and SPU | |
| I cannot say enough about the KAB Concorde STY40 combo This cartridge was spot on with all alignment, etc. It can be spot on with one alignment method only, used by Technics (very close to Stevenson), and it will be off with any other alignment method such as Baerwald etc. Basically you feel how the s... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation for Grado Lab Series Wooden Tonearm I love Joe Grado Signature XTZ (that was the best stylus), but cheaper 8MZ should be fine too. | |
| Need some turntable guidance @xaak I could buy whatever turntable, but I use two PD-444 and my Denon DP-80, Victor TT-101 and Technics SP-10 mkII (and many more turntables) were near and easy to compare to PD-444. I use so many different tonearms and cartridges, but I hate be... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation for Grado Lab Series Wooden Tonearm Grado cartridge | |
| Best cartridge <$200? Yeah, before the CDs the market for phono cartridges was huge, vinyl was main format in this world. Now digital is main format. I was thinking about Tube analogy, obviously even NOS tubes are better than new (most of them). Tube is very simple dev... | |
| Need some turntable guidance @xaak Another comment from audiogon member Phil (213cobra) about his experience with different turntables and Luxman PD-444, it will spread the light a bit: Circa 1976 I owned at once a Linn Sondek, Luxman PD444 and a Transcriptor Glass Skeleton... | |
| Need some turntable guidance It wasn’t even close, with the Luxman clearly the worst of the bunch. I wound up trading mine for the Gyrodec. As I recall, Luxman discontinued the 444 shortly after and came out with a similar belt drive table. @xaakI love people who can comment... | |
| Cartridge Change Those Nagaoka with aluminum cantilever and bonded elliptical styli are not good. In your situation It’s like changing one to another without any serious upgrade in sound quality. Cartridge is the most important part If you want to extract music fr... | |
| Need some turntable guidance Garrard 301 alone (without plinth and tonearm) can be $4k and this is the type of turntable that must be fully refurbished, maintained, many parts must be replaced, this is a very old turntable. I like the design, especially hammertone finishing. ... | |
| Cartridge Change Try some classics, you will quickly realize what the true MM sound with classic high-end MM cartridge, not that modern MM. The budget is ... ?? |